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Yo Facebook, Ban Links With Fake Video Play Buttons
Jun 14, 8:05PM
Oh, cute cat video? Let me watch that for a second in the News Feed. Click the play button. NOPE. It was a lie. Just a static image of a play button designed to dupe me into clicking out to some crappy website. Feed reading, interrupted. User experience, injured. Likelihood I’ll click legitimate videos in the future, diminished. Facebook. Seriously. This BS needs to stop. I get it. Sites… Read MoreGillmor Gang Live 06.14.14
Jun 14, 6:04PM
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. Click here for the live Friendfeed chat link. Also Find us on Facebook here. Read MoreSand Hill Road's Consiglieres: August Capital
Jun 14, 6:00PM
There are VCs, and then there are classic VCs. It was 1980, and 30 year old Dave Marquardt was a young, hot shot VC at Technology Venture Investors looking for his next deal. He heard through the grapevine that another young hotshot, “Billy Gates,” was having success with a startup called Microsoft, and he called one of Gates’ employees Steve Ballmer, who was his former… Read MorePortland Gets One Step Closer To Getting Google Fiber
Jun 14, 5:00PM
In a few years time, when you come to retire in Portland, chances are that you will be able to subscribe to Google Fiber. Earlier this week, the city took another step in allowing Google to expand its gigabit fiber network to “fiberhoods” in the city by approving a franchise agreement with the company. Google plans to invest over $300 million in this project, the Oregonian… Read MoreNutmeg Is The Answer To Your Sad, Gif-Free Existence
Jun 14, 2:05PM
Because I love you, I’ve interrupted my regularly scheduled Saturday morning programming to bring you this breaking news update: THERE IS A NEW APP IN THE APP STORE THAT MAKES SENDING GIFS IN TEXT MESSAGES SUPER EASY! Read MoreThe Only Tragedy Of This War Is That One Day It Will End
Jun 14, 1:00PM
Did you know that the book publishing industry is at war with itself? No, wait, you’re a TechCrunch reader, wrong question. Did you know that the book publishing industry still exists? …This is kind of an awkward time for those of us who love both books and technology. It’s almost like you can’t cheer for both. This week’s example: the ongoing dirty war between… Read MoreCourt Orders Department Of Justice To Privately Produce Secret Surveillance Court Documents
Jun 14, 12:27AM
Today, Judge Yvonne Rogers of the District Court, Northern California District ordered that the Department of Justice produce documents relating to five Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA court) decisions. The documents won’t be released to the public, but the decision grants the Judge the ability to review in private the material that the government doesn’t want released. Read MoreSurvival Of The Digital Fittest
Jun 14, 12:18AM
In just under two weeks from now at Google I/O, Google will announce wearable fitness functionality that Apple announced at WWDC. Next year at WWDC, Apple will announce wearable fitness functionality that Google announced at I/O. Jokes aside, Google and Apple’s competition to “own” wearable health has reached “Silicon Valley”-level proportions. After Apple… Read MoreBehind The Scenes Of The Daily Show's Devastating Google Glass Segment
Jun 14, 12:08AM
The Daily Show’s Jason Jones had a segment on the show last night that highlighted so-called ‘discrimination’ against Google Glass wearers. I was the butt of a lot of its jokes — the show invited me on after I was assaulted wearing Google Glass in the Mission District of San Francisco. Read MoreBuilding Code To Break Poverty In Bangladesh
Jun 13, 11:46PM
Teaching people in the third world how to code seems to be a growing trend that may just help to break the world-wide poverty cycle. Danish-based microfinancing operation CodersTrust is starting to do just that with a test group of 100 Bangladeshis. “Nine out of 10 coders on sites like oDesk suck,” says CodersTrust co-founder Ferdinand Kjaerulff. It’s a problem he and… Read MoreUbisoft Shows That The Video Game Industry Needs To Work On Its Priorities
Jun 13, 10:58PM
The video game industry, like the tech industry at large, has a poor history of welcoming women into its culture. That’s not exactly an original sentiment, but it’s something that can’t be said too often. Read MoreA BMW Can Now Control A GoPro Camera Because Why Not
Jun 13, 10:50PM
As a result of a new partnership between GoPro and BMW, it’s never been easier to record your hoonage antics. Select late-model BMW cars will soon be able to control GoPro cameras directly from the dash. Just click record on the dash of the car and the connected GoPro cameras click to life. Starting in July, the owner of a 2012 or later properly equipped BMW or Mini will be able to… Read MoreBitcoin's Price And The Public Interest
Jun 13, 10:39PM
When bitcoin’s price skyrockets, the printing presses kick into high gear. And when Bitcoin collapses, a new crop of stories go out. Something interesting is happening at the moment, however, as we have recently seen a decoupling of bitcoin’s price and the public interest. In short, bitcoin’s recent rally hasn’t been matched with rising consumer interest in the currency. Read MoreCrunchWeek: Twitter's Leadership Shuffles, Amazon's New Music App, And Leena's Last Day
Jun 13, 10:19PM
Happy Friday, and welcome to new episode of CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show that brings a few of us writers together to talk about the most buzzed about tech news stories of the past seven days. In today’s episode, Leena Rao, Ryan Lawler and I talked about the latest C-level shuffles at Twitter with the departures of COO Ali Rowghani and VP of media Chloe Sladden, and Amazon launching… Read MoreYelp, Zillow And Groupon Rise In Wake Of OpenTable Acquisition Announcement
Jun 13, 9:55PM
The $2.6 billion acquisition of OpenTable by Priceline bounced a number of companies’ share prices today, including a 3.91 percent rise for Groupon, and a 2.39 percent bump for Zillow. Yelp, however, shot north 13.79 percent. Investors seem to be betting that, in the wake of the OpenTable deal — executed at a more than 40 percent premium — other companies that are local… Read MoreNetflix Will Shut Down Public API Support For Third-Party Developers On November 14
Jun 13, 9:49PM
Netflix is getting a lot stingier with the way that third-party developers can use its content, announcing that it will stop supporting its public API by the end of the year. In a letter to API partners, Netflix VP of Edge Engineering Daniel Jacobson announced that it would retire the public API program effective November 14. Read MoreGillmor Gang Live 6.13.14
Jun 13, 8:24PM
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Benedict Evans, Dan Farber, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. Click here for the live Friendfeed chat link. Also Find us on Facebook here. Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: E3, Vessyl, And Parrot Mini Drones
Jun 13, 7:00PM
This week, Nintendo showed off its latest stuff at E3, and designer Yves Behar (and friends) unveiled $100 mini drones that jump, rove and fly. Read MoreCourt Upholds Dismissal Of $1B Lawsuit Against Facebook
Jun 13, 7:00PM
Facebook enjoyed a legal victory today, when an earlier dismissal of a lawsuit that it called a “publicity stunt” was upheld by a three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The lawsuit, alleging that Facebook did not take down a page urging violence against Israel’s Jewish population quickly enough, was filed in 2011. The lawsuit… Read MorePinterest Improves Its Search Engine Again With Smarter Place Search
Jun 13, 5:55PM
Yep, Pinterest is becoming a search engine. Following this week’s news regarding the arrival of a feature called “Guided Search” on the web, Pinterest today says it’s now rolling out smarter “Place Search,” too. The changes being introduced will make it easier to map a Pin to a Place Board in just a few clicks on both iOS and web. This is really about making… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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